7.23.2009

GOP won't offer health plan, it would "confuse" people

GOP Rep. Roy Blunt, chair of the “House GOP Health Care Solutions Group”, has said the House GOP will indeed not be offering an actual solution.
“Our bill is never going to get to the floor, so why confuse the focus? We clearly have principles; we could have language, but why start diverting attention from this really bad piece of work they’ve got to whatever we’re offering right now?”


That’s a detailed admission that Republicans think it’s better politics to keep the focus on the Democrats. It's not about health care reform, it's about scoring political points and attempting to wound a popular president.

Blunt’s other recent suggestion, that government perhaps shouldn’t have created certain other well-established government health care programs, is making the rounds. He's already said that Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes.

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